United Parcel Service (UPS)
has committed to helping
GAVI, the international
vaccine alliance company,
reach its goal of immunising
300 million children on the
African continent against
infectious diseases by 2020.
This according to the UPS
Foundation’s humanitarian
supply chain director, Esther
Ndichu, who told delegates at
the recent Gordon Institute
of Business Science (Gibs)
Health and Humanitarian
Logistics conference in
Johannesburg last month
that the foundation had
provided over 2 million
hours of humanitarian aid
to various relief agencies in
2014 alone.
“Our long-term
partnership with GAVI
will see us providing
training, logistics support
and strategic input into
their supply chain strategy
on the African continent,”
she explained.
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UPS provided transport for a shipment of life-saving vaccine supplies to Mauritania earlier this year.
